The notion that the maternal ...

The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.
The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.
 Betty Rollin

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in my mother's ferocious striving to give me 'everything,' she had never considered that giving me 'everything' would make me (1) different (from her), and (2) guilty (about what I got). Different and Guilty are not the stuff on which comradeship is built.
 Betty Rollin
Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.
 Betty Rollin
unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.
 Betty Rollin